The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-01-19
A CHASTITY CRIME.
A Seventeen -Year-Old Boy Mur-
ders His Employer.
Scattering the Dismembered Re-
mains Along the Wayside.

James E. Nowlin, boy who was arrested
for killing his employer, George A. Goldman
Somerville (Mass.) milkmau, and scatter
ing the dismembered body along the high
way in two towns, has made full confession
Of the crime. Nowlin says he killed young
Goldman at o'clock in the morning. The
deed was done in Codmau's stable. He says
that he had been thinking oft for some days,
excited thereto by Codmans boastful way of
showing money, and expected to secure about
$500, with which he intended to leave that
part of the country. He slipped up behind
the victim and stabbed him in the side Of the
neck with butchers knife. He severed an
artery and Goldman fell to the floor and died
almost instantly. He then put the body un-
der pung, covered it up and went on bis
milk route, taking his brother with him.
He returned about | o'clock, put up bis
team and went to dinner. Alter dinner he
went to the stable, cleaned up the traces or
the crime as we'll as he could, and then de-
liberated as to the disp sition of the body.
He finally decided to take it away in the
pung and secrete 1t somewhere until he
could safely get rid of it. He considered
the weight of the body, and to make
it easier to handle and to hide the traces OF
his CHASTITY load he concluded TO dismember
it. Then he took Gu ak and first chopped off
the left leg close to the body and then the
right arm. Thinking that with these men,
bers gone he could easily handle what was
left, he placed the body aud the severed
parts in the back part Of his pung and
covered it with the rubber horse blanket
which was bseluently found near the body,
and also put the axe into the sleigh. Before
starting lie tidied things up in the stable de.
stroying what he could of the marks left after
his rough mode of dissection. He con-
cluded then to secure the money for
which he had committed the crime,
and started off with the turnout and the
body for Codman's boarding house. He left
the team standing few doors from the
house and then went in, telling the landlord
that Goldman was going away for an
indefinite time with man and had
sent him for his money and other things
He was allowed to 60 up to Codman's room
to get articles of apparel, and from there he
carried Off tie desk containing about S2I3 in
money and other articles of value. He re-
turned to the team and drove of toward
Lexington.
After driving awhile he began to realize
the enolmity Of his crime and became more
and more frightened aS he drove along. i'm
agining that all who saw him knew of the
dreadful burden lie was carrying. His fears
worked SO much upon him that when he
came to a lonely part of the road and
body out Of the pung and, half frenzied by
his fear of detection, seized the axe aud
chopped the head Off and smashed the face
until he thought it would be unrecognizable.
lie then threw the head and All arm over
a wall, return d to the road, lifted the
body into the pung and started off
again. After driving about mile and a
half he again alghted and threw the DO ly
into some shrubbery. where it was after
ward found. The left leg he secreted in
some bushes near by. After deposit
ing tho body lie took the rub
ber blanket which had hidden the
remains in the pung and threw it, as he
thought, over the dismembered body, jumped
into the loung and drove off. The blanket,
however, fell short Of its mark and left the
body exposed. His lideous mission occupied
him about four hours.
James Edward Nowlin is a handsome
young man, little over seventeen years old,
and is intelligent looking. He is one of
four brothers who live in Somerville.
While nothing really bad is known of
the brothers, they have the reputation
of being hotblooded and wild. The father
OF the family, it is stated, hanged himself in
the penitentiary iu The provinces His de-
parture from Somerville few years ago was
hastened by somewhat questionable acts.